New Guy

I'm a Viet Nam veteran. Wounded Tet 68 by an RPG that destroyed the APC I was driving. HHC Recon Platoon, MOS 11D, 2/34th Armor, 25th ID. 1oo% VA disability for combat wounds and PTSD. Originally from Mt Clemens, MI and now reside in the Pacific NW.

Actually I've always gotten along with my wife despite my PTSD. I think of my home as my safe place, somewhere to hide from the world. I was in group therapy with other RVN vets but was told to leave. I seems can't get along well with people, mostly men. I believe my PTSD was created after I came home from the war. We were hated back then; by are own age group and even WW2 vets. You had two choices, join the hippie revolution and drug out or keep it all in. It was like a boiling tea kettle with the lid on.

Welcome Mike, I'm not old I still appreciate your service. Your right it's a totally different ball game, I was a Veterans Advocate for a Congressmanss office before I moved, and I met so many awesome people that are suffering from the generation gap that your talking about. Now it's not so much about being hated, just really misunderstood, so at least the constant misunderstanding is consistent no matter what conflict you were in.

Naw, "pre-Spook". We tested a lot of different platforms for them, starlight scope, flare systems and a bunch of stuff I didn't want to know about, but was at Ubon when the old Spectors showed up. I don't know what in hell keeps those birds in the air with all the crap they've got hanging off them these days.

Did you know they now have a 155mm sticking out the left troop door?

We "evolved" the Blind Bat Mission. We were originally strictly flarship. But when we got the scopes in, we went to detection, interdiction. Saved on flares, better detection without lighting up the sky. Laid in a couple of marker flares and tried to get the jet jocks to connect the dots. (Good luck).

I read recently, they're gonna build a super highway down the trail. Should be easy work, we already cleared all the heavy stuff. Ha!